re: Kari Lake remained seated during the "Black National Anthem"

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the style books that categorize ethnic groups as proper nouns (e.g. White, Black, Hispanic, Native American, etc)?

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For how long have they done that? Does it get capitalized when referring to just the ethnic group or even as an adjective for a single individual?

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They style books are still pretty "split" on it. Some still say to capitalize Black, but not White. I think that is nonsense. The TREND is toward treating BOTH as proper nouns, but I think it is still a slight minority.